Penny Dreadful is a slow-burning and terrific show, one that for the last three seasons has taken iconic literary figures—Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Dracula—and used them to explore the pathos behind monstrosity. It’s also pitch-perfect at capturing the gloom of 19th century London, the tenor of Victorian horror,…

It’s basically destiny that freako-king Tim Burton ever discovered Eva Green, the French goth gamine who haunts Showtime’s Penny Dreadful with a ghostly and voracious vulnerability. She is as delicate and fierce as any of his muses through the years—Lisa Marie, Winona Ryder, Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Wasikowski—and…